A togher is a timber road laid across boggy or waterlogged terrain, a practical solution to the problem of moving through landscape that would otherwise swallow a traveller whole. This particular example is a class 3 togher, a classification that indicates a fairly rudimentary construction, and the physical evidence bears that out: roughly 80 centimetres wide and only about 15 centimetres deep, it was built from roundwood, meaning unsplit, minimally worked branches rather than dressed timber planks.

The materials used were birch and hazel, both common woodland species in post-glacial Ireland and frequently found in togher construction across the midland bogs. Neither is especially durable under normal conditions, but the anaerobic, waterlogged environment of a raised bog can preserve organic material for centuries or even millennia, which is precisely why toghers survive at all. By the time this one was recorded, it was badly damaged, and its orientation ran east to west, suggesting it once connected two points across a stretch of bog that made direct passage difficult. Who built it, and when, is not recorded.